Carmen Chak-Lui WONG

• Member, Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
• Assistant Dean of the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
• Professor, Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong
• Principal Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Carmen Chak-Lui Wong is currently the Assistant Dean of the LKS Faculty of Medicine, Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Pathology and the State Key Laboratory of Liver Research at HKU. She obtained her PhD degree in HKU and completed her post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University. She is the recipient of the NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars Fund, NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau), RGC Research Fellowship, Croucher Innovation Award, HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA), HKU Outstanding Research Student Supervisory Award (ORSSA), Hong Kong Young Scientist Award, and Li Ka Shing Prize. Her research team is devoted to unraveling the complex mechanisms that drive metabolic reprogramming and immune evasion in liver cancer. Her team employs precision mouse models to gain a deeper understanding of personalized medicine for liver cancer. Her work has paved the way for precision medicine for liver cancer. She is the ESI top 1% most cited scholar. She is an elected member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Science. She currently serves as the co-editor-in-chief of Hepatology Communications (AASLD). She is also the council member of the governing board of the International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA).